Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-04
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yeas. III; nays, 81.
Mr.. Adams, of Illinois, moved to
suspend the rules and pass tho Senate
bill authorizing the Secretary OF War
TO nocept from the Commercial Club
certain land known rs the High Tract,
near Chicago, H., for military pur-
poses. The motion was agreed to and
The bill passed-147 to 81.
The House then, at $50, took re-
cess until & o'clock.
At the night session, on motion OF
Mr.. Holman, the Senate amendments
TO the legislative appropriation bill were
pon-concurred III. The urgent def
cheney bill was passed under a suspen-
sion Of the rules. The bill appropriates
for DEFICIENCIES in the Post Office De-
partment Sl93, 600; in the Treasury
/ apartment (lor printing 81 and 81
silver certificates and United States le-
CALENDER notes., S27, 900 in the De-
partment of Justice, 1886, 900 aud for
the payment of certified claims, 1884,,
2s5.
Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, moved to
suspend the rules and pass the Senate
bii granting pension of g, 900 year
10 Mary $. Logan, widow of the late
Tohn a. Logan, and addressed the
House in support of the bill.
Mr.. Tarsney, of Michigan who de-
scribed himself as one of the five
Michigan brothers, all Democrats, of
whom one was killed fighting for the
Union, another lay eighteen months in
a Confederate prison, and two others
bore scars of honorable conflict, pro-
tested against the principle of the bill.
He saw no reason why pensions like
TIE one proposed should be given to
the widows of officers merely because
their husbands had been officers, while
tie families of private soldiers were'
lett to shift for themselves or granted
the merest pittance.
Mr.. Allen, of Mississippi, referring
10 the limitations that ex-Confederates
would vote against the bill on account
Of the i'll will they bore against those
who had been victorious over them, de-
clared that lie represented the senti-
ment of every Confederate when he
said that there was not lingering in the
South one single scintilla of hatred or
prejudice or i'll will against any man be-
couse he was opposed to it in that un-
fortunate conflict.
"You forgive us, do you?" cried Mr..
Johnston, of Indiana, amid laughter.
1--WE forgive" retorted Mr.. Allen,
soldiers; but We do not forgive dems-
goeues who are trying to make capital
out of the soldiers" Laughter and
applause
SIR. randall said that he had voted to
give the widows of Generals Thomas
and Hancock g, 600 a year. They had
been exceptional cases, and he was
ready here tonight to make an excep-
tional case on behalf of the widow of
John A. Logan. TApplause]. He could
detect no line Of difference in the heart
beats or nerve-pulses Of the three men
as they stood in the armies of the
United States in behalf OF the Union, ex-
cept in this, that two of them had been
in the regular army, and that there
were precedents for granting pensions
10 their widows. He proposed to make
a Iecedent in behalf of the volunteer
All. yof the United States. Applause. ]
Pc spoke the sentiments OF the people
here present.
4Lt MOTION to suspend the rnles and
PISS the bill was lost-yeas rs, nays
ll;-Dot n necessary two thirds in the
81 native
Ar. Blopnt reported a further dis
agreement of the conference commit
tee on the post-office appropriations
bill. The House insisted on its dis
agreement, and a further conference
wac ordered.
Senate bill was passed authorizing
John i Chamberlain to erect hotel
at Fortress Monroe, Va.
I 4. M-The House is doing but lit
tie business beyond the passage of va
nous private bills and the reception of
conference reports on measures of local
importance only. 1t is rather noisily
awaiting the action of the conference
committees on appropriation bills.
40 Il. M-The House passed over
the Presidents veto-yeas 1873, NAYS
63-Senate bill for the erection of a
public building at Dayton, o.
hr Wilson, of West. Virginia, re-
ported further disagreement on the
District of Columbia appropriations
bill.
STILL IN SESSION.
1t the hour Of going to press (4:20
\. NJ both houses of Congress are still
il session, with the probability of re-
naming SO all night.